End of year 2015

Looking back this has been a great year for the Media Production course and students. We’ve had inspirational  lectures and workshops from our partners at ITV, LA Productions, Mocha, Ironbird, Hatch to name a few and students have worked on placements and projects with ITV Shiver, BBC, Lime Pictures, Lime Digital, Mocha and more. The […]

A day with Ironbird

Last week 12 media production students and I went on a fun day out with Rob and Alec of Ironbird:  iron-bird.co.uk , Liverpool–based aerial cinematography company that’s having a meteoric success since their start up 2 years ago.  The morning began with screened examples of their work ranging from air shots for a documentary in Kenya […]

Winners of Royal Television Society Award 2015

Last night at Media City two graduates of Media Production won a prestigious Royal Television Society Student Award in the factual category. Josie Webster and Ian Gardner produced One Eye Open a documentary about a partially sighted climber for their final production project last year – it can be seen here on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/album/2496885/video/92598171 Here’s […]

Film Makers Club

The Liverpool Screen School Film Makers club launched last week with a very well attended social event at the Hope and Anchor – next week there will be a meeting to announce a pitching process to get cross curricula film projects off the ground.

MeCCSA Conference

I recently attended the MeCCSA (Media, Communication, Cultural Studies Association) annual conference, this year held in Newcastle at the University of Northumbria. Many of the themes we discuss on the course were explored in papers ranging from children’s media, to digital culture and democracy, multi platform media to the future of public service broadcasting. Of […]